Giant Foods, Stop & Shop, and Wegmans grocery stores have issued a salad recall resulting from listeria contamination. Nature's Promise brand and Wegmans brand salad products are among the list of recalled produce. The products were packaged on January 4, 2011 by State Garden, Inc. of Chelsea,...
CBS news was first to report results from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finding that 35% of women have an abortion by age 45. The Atlanta based agency and the Alan Guttmacher Institute compiled statistics based upon information since the early 1980s. Researchers estimate...
Dr. Teddy Wu, a physician at the Christchurch Hospital, published a report in the New Zealand Medical Journal, treated a woman who suffered a stroke caused by a hickey. Wu reported that one year ago, he treated a 44 year old Maori female at the emergency room of the Middlemore Hospital in Auckland...
A food crisis within Germany has worsened as officials suspect foul play was the cause of the massive farm shutdowns. Investigations revealed the feed for animals contained the carcinogen dioxin and contamination fears have spread as testing on the animal fats revealed the contamination occurred...
An alarming study by Medco Health Solutions, Inc. found that over one quarter of children within the United States take prescription drugs on a regular basis. The study found also found that 7 percent of those children were taking two or more prescriptions on a "chronic basis." Among the...
A probable carcinogen Hexavalent Chromium, a probable carcinogen, has been detected in the drinking water of 31 cities within the United States. The Environmental Working Group sampled and analyzed drinking water across the nation. The group determined the same substance made famous by the film...
The Journal of American Medical Association just published a study of possible causes of autism completed by researchers from the University of California at Davis. The team found that a biological "mitochondrial dysfunction" may be the cause of the baffling developmental condition. Researchers...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that the weight loss drug Contrave is one step closer to a January 2011 approval. An advisory panel determined by a 13-7 vote that the benefits of Contrave outway the potential risks. Contrave is a combination therapy drug comprised of...
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently published a report concerning an alarming trend in increased gonorrhea and chlamydia cases in Alaska since 2009. The CDC report noted that the gonorrhea outbreak within Alaska is "out of control" with a 69% increase from 2008 to 2009....
The painkiller propoxyphene, better known as Darvocet and Darvon, has been recalled by the Food and Drug Administration. An outside advisory panel determined that the serious and potentially fatal effects of Darvocet outweigh the pain killing properties of the drug. The FDA cited clinical studies...
